Bella (film)

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Movie
German title Bella
Original title Bella
Country of production United States
original language English , Spanish
Publishing year 2006
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Alejandro Gomez Monteverde
script Alejandro Gomez Monteverde,
Patrick Million ,
Leo Severino
music Stephen Altman
camera Andrew Cadelago
cut Fernando Villena ,
Joseph Gutowski
occupation

Bella is a feature film by Mexican director Alejandro Gomez Monteverde , starring Eduardo Verástegui and Tammy Blanchard , which won the 2007 People's Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival . The independent film , which was shot in and around New York City with a budget of around 3.3 million US dollars , has not yet been released in German-speaking territories.

content

Nina, a waitress in a Mexican restaurant in Manhattan, loses her job when she is late for work several times. The brother of the restaurant owner Manny, José, follows her to the subway station to check on her and spontaneously offers her to discuss what to do with him on a walk through the city and a visit to the beach on Long Island she could do in the future. The two stroll through the city. She admits that she is unwantedly pregnant and is considering an abortion because she is no longer with the child's father. When José briefly returns to the restaurant to get his wallet and phone, he clashes with Manny, who also dismisses him without further ado.

The two take a train to see Jose's parents, who run a busy Puerto Rican-Mexican household, and stay for dinner. José tells Nina about his past; He was a famous soccer player who carelessly ran over a child five years ago on the way to a press conference and was imprisoned for four years for negligent homicide. Nina and José spend an evening talking on the beach. The next morning they say goodbye in town, intending to meet again for the abortion of Nina's child. The film's framework, which is now being continued, reveals that José had in the meantime adopted Nina's child and now, four years after the events of the film, Nina comes to see her daughter for the first time.

production

Bella is the first work of the director who wrote the script with Patrick Million. The film was produced by Sean Wolfington , Verastegui, Leo Severino, Monteverde, Denise Pinckley and Jason Jones. Stephen McEveety, who had produced Braveheart and The Passion of the Christ , was also on board as executive producer . Here he only came on board after the film was finished. The film opened in US theaters on October 26, 2007 and, according to the Hollywood Reporter , grossed $ 8.8 million at the box office.

Award

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert W. Welkos: Bella is a Rallying Point . LATimes.com. December 4, 2007. Retrieved December 6, 2007.
  2. ^ Gregg Goldstein: Roadside takes Bella on US Trip; First Pickup after Lionsgate deal . TheHollywoodReporter.com. August 30, 2007. Retrieved September 21, 2007.

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